Simple Crypto Quiz

Litecoin was created by a former Google employee in 2011 and boasts zero payment costs and facilitates payments approximately four times faster than Bitcoin.

Originating from the Doge meme, this cryptocurrency was originally introduced as a "joke currency" but quickly developed an online community and now has capitalisation of over $240M.

Released in 2012, Ripple aims to enable "secure, instant and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no charge backs'.

Growing from the Zero Project, which aimed to improve the anonymity of Bitcoin users, Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain.

The most well known cryptocurrency by quite a margin, Bitcoin is still going strong. Over 100,000 merchants and vendors now accept Bitcoin as a payment for their goods, although the cryptocurrency can also be held as an investment.

Hitting a record high in November 2017 of $425.55, Ethereum is second behind Bitcoin as the world's favourite cryptocurrency.

Formely known as Darkcoin and XCoin, Dash offers features such as instant transactions (InstantSend) and private transactions (PrivateSend). The daily trade volume of Dash is reported to be around $100M per day.